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package org.apache.geode.test.dunit;

/**
 * Defines an asynchronous criterion with an optional method to fail early
 * before timeout.
 *
 * Extracted from DistributedTestCase.
 * 
 * @deprecated Use {@link com.jayway.awaitility.Awaitility} instead.
 */
public interface StoppableWaitCriterion extends WaitCriterion {
  
  /**
   * If this method returns true then quit waiting even if we are not done.
   * This allows a wait to fail early.
   */
  public boolean stopWaiting();
  
}
